Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profound mind, so that he has a big philosophy of life; for every great poet is also a great philosopher, and yet he does not put his philosophy before us in the form of a Kant, a William James, or a Josiah Royce. For these men deal largely in abstract expression and make no great effort to wrap their truth in the veil of beauty. The poet, however, must deal concretely with life and must always fold his truth in the veil of beauty. A poem contains truth, but it must contain more than mere truth, it must contain...
...William James, who graduated from Harvard in 1869, has said something which applies only too closely to cases of this kind. Writing to H. G. Wells in 1906, he said, 'Exactly that callousness to abstract justice is the sinister feature, and to me as to you the incomprehensible feature,--of our U. S. civilization. . . . When the ordinary American hears of these cases instead of the idealist within him beginning to see red with the higher indignation, instead of English history growing alive in his breast, he begins to pooh-pooh and minimize and tone down the thing, and breed excuses...
...general discussion of the problems co existent with college organizations. Participation, not isolation, is the course which will win respect from those college men, whose respect we certainly do not care to lose. Without participation we can hope for no leadership, and non-representation can not but abstract from the well-earned glory of athletic victories...
...bringing with it the membership in the Varsity Club. The insignia awarded for minor sports is, after all valuable in a much lesser degree. There are few who go out for minor sports to win the insignia as an honor to be worn. The incentive is more in the abstract honor of being on the team and in getting the exercise. The privileges of a Minor Sport Club would never stir the ordinary student to heights of energy and athletic activity. At first the idea seems attractive but upon analysis it really appears quite unnecessary...
...little too long for its purpose and contains too much exotic detail. The misspelled pomegranate might well be replaced by a homelier and more familiar apple. In general, the verse in this issue is too rhapsodic and aerial. I suppose that the feverish apostrophes to Beauty in the abstract are due to the limitations of Cambridge in the concrete...